MesosphereWhat is Marathon?
Marathon is an Apache Mesos framework for container orchestration. Marathon provides a REST API for starting, stopping, and scaling applications. Marathon is written in Scala and can run in highly-available mode by running multiple copies. The state of running tasks gets stored in the Mesos state abstraction.
Marathon is a tool in the Container Registry category of a tech stack.
Marathon Pros & Cons
Pros of Marathon
- ✓Health Checks
- ✓High Availability
- ✓Load Balancing
- ✓Powerful UI
- ✓Service Discovery
Cons of Marathon
No cons listed yet.
Marathon Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Marathon?
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Docker Compose
With Compose, you define a multi-container application in a single file, then spin your application up in a single command which does everything that needs to be done to get it running.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
